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@einen tata atent @fitta JOSEPH L. EDWARDS, OF NEW ORLEANS, LUISANA leem Patent No. 66,623, dated 4pm 9, 1867.

IMPROVEMENT IN COTTON PLANTER.

Be it known that I, JOSEPH L. A. EDWARDS, of the city of New Orleans, State of Louisiana, have invented a new and improved Cotton Planter; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and lexact description of said machine, together with its construction and operation of the same, reference being had to the annexed drawings, making a part of this specification, in Which- Figurel is a perspective View.

Figure 2, a longitudinal elevationA Figure 3, a tra-verse section.

l Letter A is the france to which the different parts are attached. B is aroller placed'directlyin front of the harrow C, and isattached to frame A, and between shafts D E is labrake, operating onl roller B in siich a manner that by pressing with the foot the roller is pressed down and raises barrow C in case of obstruction.` O is a hai-row, the teethof which are `in shapeof 'cultivators. F is a groover or trencher that follows in the rear of the harrow andprepares a trench for the reception of `the seed, which is discharged through funnel-box G in rear of the groover. H is a box into which the seed is placed that supply G. I is a drum-wheel, on which are sunk holes of suicient size and capacity to receive the seedv and pass vthem into funnel-box G as the machine is drawn along. J is a brake, to throw the drum-Wheel I out of gearing. K is a shaft, on which are spur-s to agitate theseed in box H. To this shaft is attached, on outside, a pinion-wheel, L,'Which acts on spur-wheel M. M is the spur that drives the drum-wheel I. This spur acts also on pinion N. N is a pinion, to the shaft of ivhieh is attached a. brush to keep the seed from remaining in the druunwheel. O is a coverer or scraper fixed to'the'lmachine in the rear of the groover and funnel-box to cover over the seed as planted. P is the seat for the driver of the Vhorse attached `to the machine. Thus, when the machine is in motion, one part operating on the other, the soil is prepared, the trench made, the seed sown in ridges, and it is then covered, the Whole Work performed.

Having thu's described the construction and operation ol the machine in all its parts, I claim, and do claiml. .The employment of the roller B, in connection with the separate parts, substantially as and for the purpose set forth. i l

2. The arrangement of lthe holes on the drum-wheel I, and the arrangement of the wheel, substantially` as and for the purposes set forth.

3. The combination of the harroiv C, the groover F, -the seed-box G, and the scraper ormeoverer O, as also the agitator K and brush N, substantially as and for the purposes set forth.

4. The arrangementof the devices above claimed,al1 constructed and operating substantially as and for the purposes described.

JOS. L. A. EDWARDS. Witnesses:

W; H. WILDER, Lotus PALMER. 

